About chris
I’m a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer at Airtable, where I partner with strategic enterprise customers to design, validate, and scale high-impact workflow and data solutions across complex environments.My work sits at the intersection of solution architecture, pre-sales engineering, implementation strategy, and executive advisory. I help teams translate ambiguous operational challenges into scalable systems that support real business outcomes.At Airtable, I’ve supported some of the company’s largest and most strategic enterprise opportunities, from the Fortune 500 to fast-growing AI companies. I’m a multi-year President’s Club recipient and have been recognized repeatedly for sales engineering impact, customer focus, and technical leadership.Earlier in my career, I spent more than a decade at Blackbaud & Convio, progressing through implementation, web development, solutions engineering, and principal architecture roles supporting some of the largest nonprofit organizations in the United States.
Key Skills
Experience
Principal Forward Deployed Engineer
CurrentAirtable
Founding Principal FDE supporting Airtable’s most strategic enterprise customers and opportunities. Partner with executives, account teams, product, customer success, and implementation teams to design, validate, and scale high-impact workflow and data solutions across complex organizations. Focus areas include enterprise workflow transformation, connected data, automation, AI-enabled workflows, product operations, supply chain, store operations, implementation strategy, and technical discovery.
Principal Solutions Consultant
Airtable
Served as a senior technical partner for Airtable’s largest and most strategic enterprise opportunities, helping customers evaluate, design, and scale Airtable across complex operational workflows. Recognized as a multi-year President’s Club recipient and companywide sales engineering award winner for technical sales impact, customer focus, and strategic account execution.
Principal Solutions Architect
Blackbaud
Led enterprise solution architecture for Blackbaud’s largest nonprofit customers, designing fundraising, CRM, digital engagement, and outreach solutions for complex organizations. Served as a trusted advisor throughout the sales cycle, partnering with executives, account teams, product, and internal stakeholders from discovery through technical validation, executive presentation, and customer success handoff. Recognized as a top-performing technical seller and trusted enterprise architecture resource.
Education
Programme For Belize Archaeological Project, Belize, Central America
The University Of Texas At Austin
Bachelors
The University Of Texas At Austin
Bachelor Of Arts
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chris specializes in Forward Deployed Engineer, with expertise in agentic workflows, ai workflows, ajax, cascading style sheets, cms.
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chris is based in austin, texas, united states.
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chris has 22+ years of professional experience.
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